To follow the journeys of Chris De Jong on his visits to old and overgrown battlefields scattered across Europe is to dig up epic war stories behind the corroded relics he finds with his metal detector—including a pair of dog tags that he traced back to a U.S. soldier who had fought in World War II.
Rummaging through the bones of an old Wehrmacht (German army) base with his detectorist friends in mid-September last year, De Jong, 31, found intact furniture in the barracks as well as military badges and porcelain dishes with Nazi eagles emblazoned on them.
